Pierre and Baptiste Victorious as Women's Tennis Hosts Berkeley
Posted: Oct 10, 2015

Pierre and Baptiste Victorious as Women's Tennis Hosts Berkeley

Team Stats
Doubles
Avila, Maria / Aksoy, Ceren (BERKELEY)
def. Trerotola, Denise / Edward, Mary (SJCBK)
8-2
Pierre, Tathiana / Baptiste, Princess (SJCBK)
def. Zharkova, Ekaterina / Mikalsen-Sandstad, V (BERKELEY)
8-4
Wong, Susan / Lippolis, Alessandra (BERKELEY)
def. Brucas, Kathryn / Wenzler, Katie (SJCBK)
8-2
Singles
Avila, Maria (BERKELEY)
def. Trerotola, Denise (SJCBK)
10-1
Aksoy, Ceren (BERKELEY)
def. Pierre, Tathiana (SJCBK)
10-5
Zharkova, Ekaterina (BERKELEY)
def. Baptiste, Princess (SJCBK)
10-5
Mikalsen-Sandstad, V (BERKELEY)
def. Edward, Mary (SJCBK)
10-1
Wong, Susan (BERKELEY)
def. Brucas, Kathryn (SJCBK)
10-2
Lippolis, Alessandra (BERKELEY)
def. Wenzler, Katie (SJCBK)
10-1

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Senior Tathiana Pierre (Brooklyn, N.Y./Bishop Ford) and Princess Baptiste (Atlanta, Ga./Benjamin Banneker) teamed up for a win in doubles but the St. Joseph's College (Brooklyn) tennis team suffered an 8-1 defeat to Berkeley College on Saturday afternoon.

The Basics

  • Final Score: Berkeley (N.Y.) 8, St. Joseph's 1
  • Records: St. Joseph's (2-6), Berkeley (2-0)
  • Location: Jamaica, N.Y.
  • Courts: York College Tennis Courts

How It Happened

  • Pierre and Baptiste teamed up for the first time in doubles play at No. 2 doubles and triumphed 8-4 over Ekaterina Zharkova and Victoria Mikalsen-Sandstad.
  • Denise Trerotola and Mary Edward paired at the No. 1 doubles position and Kathryn Brucas and Katie Wenzler at the No. 3 slot both falling by 8-2 margins to give the Knights a 2-1 lead after doubles play.
  • St. Joseph's dropped all six singles matches with Pierre fighting Ceren Aksoy at No. 2 singles and Baptiste pushing Zharkova at No. 3 singles to matching 10-5 losses.
  • Trerotola's four-match singles winning streak was halted, falling 10-1 at No. 1 singles.

Next up for St. Joseph's

The Lady Bears will wrap up a busy weekend resuming Skyline Conference play against another former Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference rival on Sunday, October 11th against Sarah Lawrence College. First serve in Bronxville, N.Y. is slated for noon.